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Christiaan Hetzner is a former writer for Fortune, where he covered Europe’s changing business landscape. He’s reported from Germany for the past two decades and is passionate about tracking industry’s intersection with finance and policy as they collectively target a net-zero society. Shaped by his time in Frankfurt covering the collapse of the dotcom stock market bubble for Dow Jones Newswires, he joined Reuters in 2004 before shifting to commentary and features for Automotive News Europe ten years later. Hailing from upstate New York, he is a graduate of Georgetown University.

FDIC chair Martin Gruenberg testified to Congress over his handling of the SVB collapse.
FinanceFDIC chair takes heat from lawmakers over cut-price deal that gave Silicon Valley Bank to First Citizens: ‘Maybe we could have been better’
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 31, 2023
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson
TechVirgin Orbit’s sudden collapse is the latest in a series of high-risk failures by Richard Branson
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 31, 2023
The Lamborghini Revuelto plug-in hybrid unveiled as the Italian brand celebrates 60 years of history.
EuropeLamborghini unveils its first hybrid—equipped with a massive V12 engine and just 6 miles of electric range 
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 30, 2023
The new power duo of UBS chairman Colm Kelleher (left) and incoming CEO Sergio Ermotti.
FinanceWho is Sergio Ermotti? Switzerland’s most successful banker returns to steer the merged UBS-Credit Suisse behemoth in its time of need
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 29, 2023
David Holz founded Midjourney, the small research lab whose A.I: tools can generate deepfake images.
TechWhat is Midjourney? The A.I. image generator used to create the viral image of the Pope in a puffer jacket
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 28, 2023
DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach says the Fed must choose which fire to fight.
FinanceBillionaire ‘Bond King’ Jeff Gundlach tells the Fed it must choose between fighting inflation or rescuing banks—it can’t do both
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 28, 2023
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FinanceBanking crisis has ‘definitely’ tipped the U.S. closer to recession, warns top Fed official who was at the center of the 2008 bailout
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 27, 2023
Saudi National Bank chairman Ammar Al Khudairy (center)
EuropeHead of Credit Suisse’s Saudi investor who sparked a stock panic has quit for ‘personal reasons’
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 27, 2023
German chancellor Olaf Scholz saw no reason to panic after shares in the country's largest bank fell up to 15% in trading.
FinanceDeutsche Bank scare forces German chancellor to borrow line from Silicon Valley Bank CEO: ‘No cause for any kind of concern’
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 24, 2023
Europe will pay the price for wiping out Credit Suisse bondholders as its ex-CEO warns U.S. banks are ‘rubbing their hands’ 
FinanceEurope will pay the price for wiping out Credit Suisse bondholders as its ex-CEO warns U.S. banks are ‘rubbing their hands’ 
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 24, 2023
Citigroup boss Jane Fraser doesn't see systemic risks in the U.S. banking system.
FinanceCitigroup boss Jane Fraser blames banking crisis on a few bad apples: ‘This is not a credit crisis’
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 23, 2023
Bill Gates believes AI will advance faster than the march of personal computing.
TechBill Gates predicts A.I. will change the world more and faster than his personal computing revolution
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 22, 2023
Trian Fund Management co-founder Nelson Peltz wants large depositors to pay a fee to insure their money against a bank collapse.
FinanceNelson Peltz, the activist investor that took on Disney, tells Biden to insure all bank deposits for a fee
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 21, 2023
Marvel Studio head Kevin Feige just lost one of his most trusted lieutenants in Victoria Alonso.
FinanceOne of Marvel’s top executives is out amid Disney shake-up and MCU Phase 5 disappointment
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 21, 2023
A crestfallen Credit Suisse chairman announces the end of the bank after nearly 167 years.
FinanceCredit Suisse received a clean bill of health from regulators—then took less than a week to completely collapse
By Christiaan HetznerMarch 20, 2023
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